India and Bangladesh to hold a joint book fair in Bangladesh in July amid prospects of a Dhaka Int. Book Fair in 2024
But isolated instances aside, we’re still a long way from seeing Bangladeshi, let alone Pakistani,...
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Category: South Asia
India – Confusion over New Delhi World Book Fair numbers as conflicting reports emerge. Could I million be 2 million?
This being India, both numbers are entirely credible, but clearly one or both is inaccurate....
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India – Almost 1 million visitors, but sales disappoint at the New Delhi World Book Fair
While one million visitors may sound impressive, it barely matches other provincial book fairs in...
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Pakistan – restricted book imports, spiralling prices and economic chaos. Not a good time to be a publisher
It’s the classic digital books chicken and egg conundrum. Publishers do not produce digital...
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Bangladesh – 6 million visitors spent $4.4 million on books at the world’s biggest book fair
…But when we consider Bangladesh has literally twice as many internet users as the UK,...
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Will the new Chennai International Book Fair provide the digital boost India’s publishing industry needs?
Actions speak larger than words of course, so we must wait a few weeks to find out just what the...
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India: “No technology can diminish the importance of books. Cellphones can be misused but books can never be misused.”
Clearly when Goud says “books can never be misused”, he has never heard of Mein Kampf,...
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450,000 attended India’s Bangladesh Book Fair
It may be too late now for Indian publishers to make arrangements to participate in the Amar...
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India – “Long Night of LiteratureS”speed-dating for books returns this month
Seven years on and this bizarre speed-dating for literature continues to draw crowds. India is of...
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Indian publishing after the pandemic – “print books have comfortably adapted to digital”
India is only at 54% internet penetration, so the reluctance of some publishers to embrace digital...
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Pakistan – No-one is reading! We must publish more books nobody wants to read!
Encourage the public to read for pleasure and they will surely find pleasure in non-fiction as...
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Pakistan’s paper shortage halts text book printing as global paper crisis bites
For countries like Pakistan, that have for so long eschewed any meaningful shift to digital...
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